Topic: Sal Ciampi Jr has been suspended

Back off of the kid dopey!  You have no idea what you are talking about.  If you would like to personally discuss this with me, lets go.  Bye the bye, I have no vested interest in this subject other than your obnoxioius post with the Barclay kid.  Bring it on benchwarmer.  Stop hiding behind your keyboard. 

 if no one cares about high school football then why do you care so much on whose coaching? last year we had 9 seniors move onto college football, so you really dont know anything about this whole cause and are just mad because your son is most likely a bench warmer and will be for the rest of his life. 

Sal Ciampi Jr has been suspended because he is an abusive coach with severe anger issues.  He talks to all of his players, not just one, in a very abusive manner.  I was even at a game where he physically, and violently went into a rage and chest bumped his own player off of third base while screaming profanities in his face at the top of his lungs.  He was blaming any possible loss to this kid for missing a call, and berated him to all of the players over they course of the rest of the game.  He calls his players humiliating names in front of parents, teammates, and other teams and parents.  He was not suspended over one letter.  It takes much more than one complaint to cause a special investigator to come into a school and suspend a coach from his position.  Multiple letters have come in from multiple parents of affected kids.  This is much deeper than most people know.  It's just too bad he had to be this way.  He inherited a great position from his dad.  All he had to do was coach like a decent individual and he would have had the position for life.  Even with his recent record. 

Tom, you are right.  The kid did make a mistake.  But if you recall, he was telling the kid to go, then simultaneously telling the kid behind him to stop.  The kid on third thought Ciampi was changing his call.  Again a mistake that maybe any coach would be frustrated over, and maybe even yell, but no where near to the abusive level of this coach.  It was unbelievable, and embarassing.  And you also know full well that he yells at and berates, humiliates and curses players on almost every given play (in games and at practice).  It is painful to watch, I can only imagine how difficult it must be to play under those circumstances.  And finally, what really makes me so sad, is that after 40 years of this kind of coaching in this town, nobody knows that it isn't supposed to be this way.  They think this is normal.  It isn't.  Many great coaches coach championship teams without degrading, humiliating, cursing at, or even physically hitting (yes that chest bump could legally be constituted as assault) their players.  It just isn't necessary.  How about building these kids esteem.  Cheering them on.  Supporting them both in the game in in their personal lives.  Sure come down tough when they need it, but them show them the better way. That is the true measure of a coach.  A player shouldn't walk away feeling greatful for having survived the season.  They should wish it could go on longer, not pray every day for its end.  That's all.  All of you kids deserve better.

That is wonderful.  Truly.  I hope you have a great future, and I am glad that it all worked out for you.  It isn't the experience of many though.  Honestly, I can't speak for football, I've never been to a game or practice, so maybe he is a different man there, and thank God for that.  Although I do know that complaints, serious ones have been filed by parents of football players as well.  I just hope it all works out for the best interest of the kids.  That is what is important.  Good luck in your future.